Jordan’s National Library Department (NLD) which has the responsibility for licensing satellite channels that broadcast in the Arab state, is to crack down on broadcasters which have not been properly licensed, and where the use of pirated programming may have occurred. According to BBC Monitoring, the NLD team has already prepared a list of satellite […]
London-based Inmarsat has a major customer in the shape of US-based Lightsquared. On July 2nd Inmasat confirmed what the market had suspected, that Ligtsquared was missing paying its quarterly bills. Virginia-based Lightsquared has a long-standing ‘Cooperation Agreement’ with Inmarsat. Lighsquared, founded by hedge fund player Phil Falcone, is developing a 4G-Satellite broadband communications network. It […]
Europe’s primary satellite launch company, Arianespace, is cutting the price of its launch vehicles. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Arianespace’s prices are being trimmed in direct response to the lower prices available in the market from rivals SpaceX and Russia-backed International Launch Services. SpaceX openly publishes its launch fees, which are from $61.2 […]
Global mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for its S-band satellite and up to two further Inmarsat missions. Under the terms of its agreement with SpaceX, Inmarsat expects to use the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, but will retain the possibility of using a Falcon 9 as an alternative, providing […]
Rocket launch specialists SpaceX is looking to loft six much-delayed Orbcomm data satellites on July 14th and 15th. The launch site at Cape Canaveral, administered by the US Air Force, is reportedly reviewing the request from SpaceX, although the launch company has made no comment. SpaceX is contracted to launch a total of 17 much-needed […]
July 1st sees a batch of Abu Dhabi Media’s ‘channels’ cease transmission on Arabsat. Abu Dhabi’s move, as reported by advanced-television.com, is slightly less mysterious than hinted at by their own July 27th statement, which said: “viewers could continue watching the company’s channels on Nilesat”. The clarification came June 30th from sources at Arabsat, who […]
Madrid-based Hispasat is ordering its 1F satellite from Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). It is the 3rd Hispasat craft to be built by SS/L. The new satellite will be a replacement craft for Hispasat 1D, and add capacity from Hispasat’s 30 degrees West ‘hot’ spot. Hispasat 1F will expand the Group’s transatlantic capacity in Europe-America and America-Europe […]
Global Invacom, a manufacturer of technology to the global satellite industry, has launched a new chip-set that opens up the market for cost effective products, useable world-wide, for the distribution of multiple satellite TV services over fibre in residential MDUs, hotels and the enterprise. For the first time, the Romeo & Juliet chip-set enables OEMs […]
Martin Halliwell, CTO at satellite operator SES, has issued a blunt warning to Europe’s space agencies, especially the French, that planned redesigns of the giant Ariane rocket launcher are not ambitious enough. Airbus Defence & Space and rocket-engine builder Safran has just created a joint-venture to build an Ariane-6 rocket, and in the process scrap […]
Abu Dhabi TV Network is abandoning its transmissions from Arabsat’s Badr 6 satellite, effective July 1st. The media group, in a brief statement June 27th, said that viewers could continue watching the company’s channels on Nilesat. Abu Dhabi, part of Abu Dhabi Media, is a broadcasting and content giant in the region. Owned by the […]